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OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down
HomeBrewR writes: "Behold the power of MacOS X...
Windows XP? Who cares! You guys arent going to believe what I was able to do in one bored day at work. http://www.mystaticip.com/homebrew shows my effort. I took OS X 10.1, installed fink with rootless Xfree86 with IceWM running BasiliskII [running MacOS 7.6]. OS X is also running ircle and VPC test drive running Windows XP. Simply amazing. The speed on this iBook 466SE of all the apps left much to be desired. This was a feasibility test. The speed of either one of the emulators running by themselves was decent if you turned off all the eye candy in Windows XP. I'm REALLY interested in getting BasiliskII up and running to be able to play all those games that OS 8 broke...stuff like Ancient Art of War and Vette. Check it out and have fun duplicating the effort HomeBrewR" The question I'm sure you're asking now is Why stop there?
There is no other computer where you can run Mac OS X and Windows XP together, while also running Mac OS 9 apps and UNIX apps. I write tech books, and I do all of the Mac and Windows screenshots on a PowerBook, and have for years. Many authors do this. Very convenient. VirtualPC is a great Web testing ground, and it's very mature on the Mac and works really well. VirtualPC is essentially free when you buy it with Windows included, and it enables you to run any software you can find on the Web in Mac OS X. Still, I only run a Windows app for non-testing purposes about once a year. So much Windows software is crap. 300 shitty icon editors.
... people aren't suffering too much on Mac OS X. In a year or so Classic will be mostly a distant memory, anyway.
There is plenty of native software for Mac OS X already, and the marquee apps have all either shipped, been demoed, or been announced. Besides, Mac OS X runs Mac OS 9 apps better than Mac OS 9 in most cases